Dell Optiplex 745 - Broadcom 5754 NIC

Thu Aug 9 21:04:54 UTC 2007

Also, as a backup I bought a Linksys USB NIC (model USB200M) but the 
system didn't detect that either.

I won't be buying lottery tickets any time soon.

Michael James wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 06:00:08 pm Chris Malton wrote:
>> Hi,
>>     According to the modules listings, the Feisty (7.04) version ought
>> to work.
>>
>> If you manually type " sudo modprobe tg3" <enter> on Feisty in a
>> Terminal window, followed by "ifconfig" <enter> you should get the
>> device loaded.
>>
>> To load it every time, you need to add it to the end of the file
>> "/etc/modules". Don't forget that the last line of "/etc/modules" must
>> be blank!
>>
>> If you have no success manually loading the tg3 driver, let us know and
>> we'll try to help you get it working.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> ubuntu at wheatonma.edu wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I am trying to help someone here get Kubuntu (6.06.1 or 7.04) working
>>> with the builtin broadcom NIC inside a new Dell Optiplex 745. When we
>>> run lspci it shows it as
>>>
>>> 0000:03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device
>>> 167a (rev 02)
>>>
>>> I noticed underneath /lib/modules/kernel/.../.../net there already
>>> existed a tg3.ko driver (that wasn't getting loaded). I tried
>>> downloading and compiling the latest version of this driver but the
>>> make process kept failing. I also tried to do this with the older
>>> version of this driver (the bmc5700 one I believe is the name) from
>>> Broadcom's site but the make failed the exact same way (complained
>>> that a file or directory did not exist).
>>>
>>> This was all within version 6.06.1. I had my end user download and
>>> install 7.04 of Kubuntu this morning and it was reported that the same
>>> thing is happening. ARGHH!!!
>>>
>>> When I had it at version 6.06.1 I tried using insmod to load the
>>> existing tg3.ko driver and it did appear when I ran lsmod but when I
>>> tried to restart the network scripts it just complained that there was
>>> no eth0 device.
>>>
>>> Has anyone got this working? Or... can you suggest a half height PCI
>>> card we could install in the Dell that Kubuntu would recognize and we
>>> could disable the onboard card?
>>>
>>> Thanks
> 
> I run feisty on a Dell Optiplex 745 and it works fine.
> Didn't have to do anything clever to get on the network.
> lspci shows the network interface, maybe you have faulty hardware?
> If so, good luck!
> You'll probably have to install Windows to convince Dell service.
> 
> root at jamlin:/var/log/apache2# lsmod | grep bcm
> root at jamlin:/var/log/apache2# lsmod | grep tg3
> tg3                   109700  0
> root at jamlin:/var/log/apache2# lspci
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 Memory Controller Hub 
> (rev 02)
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 Integrated 
> Graphics Controller (rev 02)
> 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 Integrated 
> Graphics Controller (rev 02)
> 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #4 
> (rev 02)
> 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #5 
> (rev 02)
> 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI #2 
> (rev 02)
> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio 
> Controller (rev 02)
> 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 
> 1 (rev 02)
> 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 
> 5 (rev 02)
> 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #1 
> (rev 02)
> 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #2 
> (rev 02)
> 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #3 
> (rev 02)
> 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI #1 
> (rev 02)
> 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev f2)
> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HB/HR (ICH8/R) LPC Interface 
> Controller (rev 02)
> 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 4 port SATA 
> IDE Controller (rev 02)
> 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 
> 02)
> 00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 2 port SATA 
> IDE Controller (rev 02)
> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5754 Gigabit 
> Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
> root at jamlin:/var/log/apache2# ifconfig
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:19:B9:37:45:FF
>           inet addr:152.83.170.13  Bcast:152.83.175.255  Mask:255.255.240.0
>           inet6 addr: fe80::219:b9ff:fe37:45ff/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:3462763 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:1039671 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:726314240 (692.6 MiB)  TX bytes:270916417 (258.3 MiB)
>           Interrupt:16
> 
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>           RX packets:182 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:182 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:30608 (29.8 KiB)  TX bytes:30608 (29.8 KiB)
> 
> 
> 
> Mind you I haven't got multiple monitors working yet.
> 